Essays about: "eighteenth-century literature"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words eighteenth-century literature.
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1. Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century Tailoring: A Qualitative Study of Craft Knowledge
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvårdAbstract : This thesis researches the craft knowledge in eighteenth-century sewing through case studies and reconstructions. With the theoretical framework of experimental archaeology, craft science and object-based research, it was found that reconstructions can be a suitable method to research and document craft knowledge and skills of hand sewing. READ MORE
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2. Performing Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in London, Florence and Naples 1770–1785 : Contrasting styles and competing ideals
University essay fromAbstract : In this master thesis I look at the revivals of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in London (1770 and 1785), Florence (1771), and Naples (1774). After the premiere of Orfeo ed Euridice in Vienna in 1762, Gluck himself reworked the opera for new productions in Parma (1769) and Paris (1774). READ MORE
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3. Cultural Materiality : The correlation between material and cultural capital in the late eighteenth century Stockholm elite burgher home
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : The eighteenth century saw the slow but steady rise of the middling classes to their nineteenth century social and cultural prominence, reinforced by a changing political landscape and the steadily increasing importance of the market. As the social and cultural power of the city burghers making up the majority of the middling classes grew, so did they start to consume in a manner to reflect to their new status in society. READ MORE
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4. The Sea as a Setting and a Symbol in Contemporary Irish and British Fiction: Dermot Bolger’s Temptation (2000), John Banville’s The Sea (2005), Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (2007)
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : This dissertation investigates the function of the sea in contemporary British and Irish literature, focusing on the following three novels: Dermot Bolger’s Temptation (2000), John Banville’s The Sea (2005), and Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (2007). The analysis is divided into two main parts, where the sea is considered in its roles as a setting and as a symbol. READ MORE
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5. Ideas and tradition behind Chinese and Western landscape design : similarities and differences
University essay from SLU/Landscape Architecture (until 121231)Abstract : As a historical and cultural connection, the Chinese traditional landscape not only reflects the different historical backgrounds of all the successive dynasties, the social economical vicissitude, architectural techniques, and gardening levels objectively and veritably, but also reflects the evolution of Chinese point view on nature, life and world. It was characterized by different types, and these types were divided by different owners’ identities or different locations. READ MORE
